Recent Publications; Catia Cecilia Confortini

“Doing Feminist Peace: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the

Decolonization Process, 1945-1975.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 13,3 (2011)

“A Review of Dustin Ells Howes’ Toward a Credible Pacifism: Violence and the Possibilities of

Politics (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2009).” Peace Review (December 2011)

Blog Post; Melissa Autumn White

Sexual Nationalisms: Notes on Queer Migration and Asylum Politics in Canada

In the fall of 2006, Alex and Sam wedded at Toronto’s City Hall. Dressed in cheap new suits with slick ties and holding beautiful flowers, they looked absolutely fabulous.  The guests—genderqueers and radical fairies of all persuasions—looked good too. But the wedding was an address to a different future than the one that might have been imagined by anyone not familiar with the struggles that the couple had been weathering over the last several years.

A self-described polyamorous genderqueer trans-fag couple, Alex and Sam had maintained a Canada-US cross-borders relationship for many years. When Sam decided that he wanted to make Toronto his “home” base, he and Alex began the process of putting together a family class immigration sponsorship claim. Partway into the process, the couple realized that they were going to have tremendous difficulty documenting their relationship in such a way as to render it intelligible—“legitimately” so—according to the guidelines set out by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. So, these radical anti-capitalist queers endeavored to bring their relationship into some frame of apprehendability vis-à-vis a very queer wedding that, on its face, might have been read as a thoroughly “homonormative” affair. The attendees took and posed for photos with the couple and celebrated the subversive potentials (after all!) of gay marriage. Some of these photos were carefully included along with other forms of documentation in the comprehensive “proof-of-relationship” dossier Alex and Sam subsequently created as a crucial aspect of their sponsorship application. Within a year, Sam’s immigration application came through on the basis of her recognizable relationship to Alex. Representing themselves to the state as a respectable “lesbian” couple, Sam and Alex are now able to continue to plot and live out queer(er) futures on nationalized ground.

Read more at: http://queermigration.com/2011/09/sexual-nationalisms-notes-on-queer-migration-and-asylum-politics-in-canada/ 

Recent Publications; Laura Sjoberg

Articles

Laura Sjoberg. 2011. "The Paradox of Double Effect." Women's Policy Journal 7(1)

Laura Sjoberg and Jessica Peet. 2011. "A(nother) Dark Side of the Protection Racket: Targeting Women in Wars" International Feminist Journal of Politics 13(2)

Laura Sjoberg. 2011. "Emotion, Risk, and Feminist International Relations Research," in Christine Sylvester, ed. "The Forum: Emotion and the Feminist International Relations Researcher." International Studies Review 13(4)

Laura Sjoberg. 2011. "Gender, the State, and War Redux," International Relations 25(1)

Laura Sjoberg, 2011. "What are the Grounds for the Legality of Abortion? The 13th Amendment Argument," Cardozo Journal of Law and Gender 17(3) 

Chapters

Laura Sjoberg. 2011. "Arguing Gender and International Relations," in Renee Marlin-Bennett, ed. Alker and IR: Global Studies in an Interconnected World New York: Routledge.

Laura Sjoberg, Grace Cooke, and Stacy Reiter Neal. 2011. "Women, Gender, and 21st Century Terrorism: Introduction," in Laura Sjoberg and Caron Gentry, eds. Women, Gender, and Terrorism Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

Caron Gentry and Laura Sjoberg. 2011. "Gendering Women's Terrorism in Historical Perspective," in Laura Sjoberg and Caron Gentry, eds. Women, Gender, and Terrorism Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

Laura Sjoberg and Jessica Peet, "Targeting Civilians in War: Feminist Approaches," in J. Ann Tickner and Laura Sjoberg, eds. Feminism and International Relations: Conversations about the Past, Present, and Future. New York: Routledge.

Laura Sjoberg, "Emancipation and the Critical Security Studies Project," in J. Ann Tickner and Laura Sjoberg, eds. Feminism and International Relations: Conversations about the Past, Present, and Future. New York: Routledge.

Laura Sjoberg. 2010. "Reconstructing Womanhood in Post-Conflict Rwanda," in Robin Chandler, Lihua Wang, and Linda Fuller, eds. Women, War, and Violence: Personal Perspectives and Global Activism. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 

Laura Sjoberg. 2010. "Women and the Genocidal Rape of Other Women: The Gendered Dynamics of Gendered War Crimes." in Debra Bergofen, Paula Ruth Gilbert, Tamara Harvey, and Connie L. McNeeley, eds. Confronting Gender Justice: Women's Lives, Human Rights New York: Routledge. 

J. Ann Tickner and Laura Sjoberg, "Feminism," in Steve Smith, Tim Dunne, and Milja Kurki, eds. International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity (2nd Edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Laura Sjoberg and Jillian Martin, "Feminist Security Theorizing," in Robert Denemark, ed. International Studies Encyclopedia (ISA Compendium Project), London: Wiley-Blackwell. 

Laura Sjoberg and Brooke Ackerly, "Feminist Theory and Gender Studies," in Robert Denemark, ed. International Studies Encyclopedia (ISA Compendium Project), London: Wiley-Blackwell.

Laura Sjoberg, "Gendering the Empire's Soldiers: Gender Ideologies, the U. S. Military, and the 'War on Terror'" in Laura Sjoberg and Sandra Via, eds. Gender, War, and Militarism: Feminist Perspectives. Santa Barbara: Praeger Security International. 

Edited Books

Laura Sjoberg and Caron Gentry, eds. 2011. Women, Gender, and Terrorism Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

J. Ann Tickner and Laura Sjoberg, eds. 2011. Feminism and International Relations: Conversations about the Past, Present, and Future. New York: Routledge.

Laura Sjoberg and Sandra Via, eds. 2010. Gender, War, and Militarism. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International.

Laura Sjoberg, ed. 2010. Gender and International Security: Feminist Perspectives. New York: Routledge.

Recent Publications; Christine Sylvester

1. Articles and Chapters
“Tensions in Feminist Security Studies,” Security Dialogue, 41, 6, 2010: 607-614.
“Postcolonialism,” Steve Smith, John Baylis, and Patricia Owens, eds., The Globalisation of World Politics (Oxford University Press –Oxford Textbook in International Relations, 2010).
“War, Sense, and Security,” Laura Sjoberg, ed. Gender and International Security: Feminist Perspectives (Routledge, 2010): 24-37.
“Feminism(s) Troubling the Boundaries of IR,” ISA Compendium, 2010.
“Development and Postcolonial Takes on Biopolitics and Economy," Jane Pollard, Cheryl McEwan, and Alex Hughes, eds. Postcolonial Economies: Rethinking Material Lives (Zed, 2011).

2. Edited Books/Works
Feminist International Relations: The Key Works, 5 volumes (London: Routledge, 2010).
The Forum: Emotion and the Feminist IR Researcher, International Studies Review, 13, 4, 2011.
Experiencing War (Routledge, 2011).

Recent Publications; Maya Eichler

Eichler, Maya. Militarizing Men: Gender, Conscription, and War in Post-Soviet Russia, Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2012.

Eichler, Maya. “Russian Veterans of the Chechen Wars: A Feminist Analysis of Militarized Masculinities,” in J. A. Tickner and L. Sjoberg, eds. Feminist International Relations: Conversations about the Past, Present and Future, Routledge 2011.

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